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Enewsletter • August 4, 2010

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Notes
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Voices for the Animals…Because of You!

Thanks so much
to everyone who worked so hard and gave so generously
to make Team
Vegan 2010 such a huge success! Very special
thanks go to John and Fany, for making Team
Vegan possible! Also to Anonymous, for the double-doubling,
and to Steve, Joanna and Kevin for extending
the challenge!

Because of all of
you, Vegan Outreach will be able to reach many,
many more people with the animals’ message this
coming school year! This is the necessary work
for a world that isn’t just a bit less bad,
but fundamentally better.

Every time you see
a picture of a leafleter reaching a new person,
check out the latest Adopt
a College milestone, or read a
new piece of feedback,
know that you played a key role!

As always, VO will do our best to make sure
your support has the maximum impact!

Notes
from Our Members

Laura
Hart (above) and Todd Lent (below) take
the animals’ case to the students at SUNY
Albany.

During
MFA’s leafleting this evening,
one guy came over to talk to me after reading
the Compassionate Choices. He said
he recently read JSF’s Eating Animals and
saw Food, Inc. and stopped eating meat.
Now he is interested in becoming vegan and was
happy to see us there because he had so many
questions about what to eat and how to be veg.
He told me, “The thing is, I’m just a regular
guy, but I don’t want animals to suffer.”
We talked for a couple minutes and he took a
Guide
and my card in case he has more questions. Talk
about being in the right place at the right
time! One of the great things about leafleting
is being there when someone is ready like that.—Leslie Patterson, 6/9/10

Exhausting
but awesome day of outreach at
UC Davis, where Matt (Zavortink), Theo (Summer),
and I reached over 1,500 students. A woman told
us that nine years ago, her brother had brought
home a VO pamphlet he’d gotten at UC Davis,
and she’s been veg ever since. She told
us it was really nostalgic seeing one of our
leaflets. —Brian Grupe, 6/1/10

Plenty
of interest in vegan meal ideas
at Hollywood Beach today. When people ask me,
“So what do you eat?” I like to say,
“What do you eat?” and then
give them the vegan version of all their meals!—Linda Bower, 5/30/10

I only
had a few minutes, but Nick (Kuiper)
and I were able to hand out a quick 101 booklets
at the Art Walk. The most interesting interaction
was when I gave the brochure to two girls, one
of whom was non-veg and dropped the brochure.
The other girl, a vegetarian, picked it back
up and pleaded with her friend to read it, saying,
“This is why I’m vegetarian!” Then
I met someone who said they went veg after reading
the brochure!—Jeff Boghosian, 6/5/10

The
students at Corvallis High School were
very receptive. One guy told me that they watched
Food, Inc. in his health class. Another
came over and asked for a few for friends. I
saw the students standing around reading the
booklets. Met four kids who were either vegetarian
or almost vegetarian. —Nettie Schwager, 6/10/10

Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute students have their
lives changed by Jenn Adams.

Heard
from ten vegetarians and five
vegans at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
Also heard from three people who stated that
getting the booklet in the past had moved them
to decrease their meat consumption. I seized
the opportunity to point out that dropping smaller
animals from their diets such as fishes and
chickens would spare more animals from suffering
and death compared to larger animals.
The school was prominently advertising
the new vegan falafel burger available on a bun, in
a pita, or in a lettuce wrap, as well as Amy’s
dishes. The student group has done a good job
here of getting good vegan foods made available
and well announced to the students. —Joe Espinosa, 6/8/10

Tabling
at Sapperton Day was fabulous!
We handed out almost all of the Why Vegan?
and Even If You Like Meat booklets
you sent. We had great conversations with many,
many people about veganism and making compassionate
choices. There was a group of teenage girls
that I spoke to for some time. One of them was
vegetarian, and her friends suddenly seemed
to understand. One was almost in tears after
looking through the Why Vegan? booklet,
but in a good way, as if she was enlightened
and knew it was her calling to make a change
in her lifestyle.
The
funniest was this older man who kept cracking
all these meat jokes (not vegan friendly) to
a staff person at the shop; after I approached
him and said, “Hello!” he said, “You’re
vegan? You look healthy!” as if to say
all the vegans he has ever met before have been
malnourished. He kept making fun of us being
vegan, and so we went into details of factory
farming, and in the end he ended up asking if
he could read Why Vegan? It was a great
day!—Jennifer Jamal, Karmavore,
6/13/10

Erin
(Marion) rocked the Indianapolis
Pride Festival this weekend! It’s exciting to
see more and more outreach springing up and
taking hold in different metropolitan regions.
What kudzu is to the south, Vegan Outreach is
to North America – pervasive, quickly spreading,
and impossible to control. But unlike kudzu,
we are welcomed by residents with open arms,
and not sprayed at with herbicides. Vegan Outreach:
The invasive species you’ll learn to love. —Jon Camp, 6/12/10

Vegan
Outreach is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization
dedicated to reducing the suffering of
farmed animals by promoting informed,
ethical eating.